French court expected to deliver verdict on trial for Duchess of Cambridge pictures

Record ID: 908738

  • Title: French court expected to deliver verdict on trial for Duchess of Cambridge pictures
  • Date: 5th September 2017
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - MARCH 18, 2017) (AGENCY POOL) VARIOUS OF DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, PRINCE WILLIAM AND CATHERINE, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS IN FRONT OF EIFFEL TOWER
  • Embargoed: 19th September 2017 09:19
  • Keywords: Duchess of Cambridge photos Catherine Duke of Cambridge Prince William royals topless paparazzi Closer France
  • Location: PARIS, NANTERRE, VIENS & MONTROUGE, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS, NANTERRE, VIENS & MONTROUGE, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Celebrities,Arts / Culture / Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016XBKMYV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A French court is expected to give a verdict on Tuesday (September 5) on a trial over topless pictures taken and published of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge in 2012.
    Catherine and her husband Prince William pressed at the time for criminal charges in France to try to prevent wider publication of the pictures, which were taken of them on a balcony of a private residence during their stay in the Luberon region on September 7, 2012.
    Celebrity gossip magazine Closer was among the media who published the photos, with Buckingham Palace at the time calling the photo spread a "grotesque" invasion of the royal couple's privacy.
    In a previous hearing in the same French court in May 2017, one of the photographers being tried, Valerie Suau of La Provence, told the hearing she did not know that the royal couple were on a private property when she took the photographs.
    In all, six photographers and journalists stand accused.
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